front 1 What is the study of fungi called? | back 1 Mycology |
front 2 What is a person who studies fungi called? | back 2 Mycologist |
front 3 What is the primary component of fungi cell walls? | back 3 Chitin |
front 4 What is a saprotroph? | back 4 Organisms that decompose organic matter |
front 5 What are the thread like filaments that make up a fungus? | back 5 Hyphae |
front 6 What is the body of a fungus called? | back 6 Mycelium |
front 7 What are Septate Hyphae? | back 7 Tiny pores |
front 8 What are Nonseptate Hyphae? | back 8 Doesn’t have true septa with pores, they are one continuous cell |
front 9 Name three ways that fungi can reproduce asexually? Define each. | back 9 Cell fission(unicellular), budding(unicellular), asexual spores(multicellular and unicellular) |
front 10 One of the primary uses of the ascomycete ______________ is giving cheeses their distinctive appearances, flavors, odors, and textures? | back 10 penicillium |
front 11 The antibiotic penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming, is made by the ascomycete ________. | back 11 Penicillium |
front 12 What is the club fungus that is parasitic on wheat and other cereal crops? | back 12 Rust |
front 13 What is the club fungus that is parasitic on corn and other cereal crops? | back 13 Smut |
front 14 To which Division (scientific and common name) do turkey tail fungi and shelf fungi belong? | back 14 Basidiomycota/ club fungi |
front 15 To which Division (scientific and common name) do puffballs and stinkhorns belong? | back 15 Basidiomycota/ club fungi |
front 16 What is soil? | back 16 A mixture of mineral particles |
front 17 What is a mineral? | back 17 An inorganic substance usually containing two or more elements; nutrients absorbed by roots |
front 18 What are essential nutrients? | back 18 Those nutrients without which the plant will die |
front 19 What are macronutrients? | back 19 Essential nutrients that occur in greater relative concentrations in plants |
front 20 What are micronutrients? | back 20 Essential nutrients that occur in lesser relative concentrations in plants |
front 21 What are beneficial nutrients? | back 21 Nutrients either required for or that enhanced the growth of a particular plant |
front 22 What is hydroponics? | back 22 Water culture growing plants without soil in a water culture so that mineral requirements can be determined |
front 23 What is differential growth? | back 23 Controlled by hormones |
front 24 What are nastic movements and give examples? | back 24 Doesn’t involve growth, Venus fly trap catches bug |
front 25 What is Turgor pressure? | back 25 The force within the cell that pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall |
front 26 What are hormones? | back 26 Chemical signals produced in low concentrations and active in other parts of plants |
front 27 What is the gametophyte generation? | back 27 Haploid generation |
front 28 What is the sporophyte generation? | back 28 Diploid generation |
front 29 Which generation is dominant? | back 29 Gametophyte |
front 30 What is Phylum Anthophyta? (Know some examples and basic facts) | back 30 Largest and youngest plant |
front 31 What is Class Monocotyledones? (Know some examples and basic facts) | back 31 One cotyledon in seed(iris, daylilies) |
front 32 What is Class Dicotyledones? (Know some examples and basic facts) | back 32 Two cotyledons in seed(azaleas, dogwoods) |
front 33 What is the monocot leaf venation? | back 33 Parallel |
front 34 What is the monocot arrangement of flower parts? | back 34 Most have sets of three |
front 35 How many cotyledons do monocots have? | back 35 1 |
front 36 What is the dicot arrangement of xylem & phloem in stems? In roots? | back 36 The xylem is in the center and the phloem is around the stem/ in the roots they are both in the center |
front 37 What is the dicot arrangement of flower parts? | back 37 4 and 5 |
front 38 How many cotyledons do dicots have? | back 38 Two |
front 39 What is a Complete flower? | back 39 flowers that have sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels; all four whorls |
front 40 What is an Incomplete flower? | back 40 those flowers lacking one of more of the following, sepals, petals, stamens, and/ or carpels; lacking any whorl |
front 41 What is a Perfect flower? | back 41 flowers that contain both stamens and carpels; majority of flowers are perfect |
front 42 What is an Imperfect flower? | back 42 flowers that contain only stamens or only carpels, not both |
front 43 What does it mean for a plant to be Monoecious? | back 43 plants having both stamenate and carpellate flowers |
front 44 What does it mean for a plant to be Dioecious? | back 44 plants having only staminate flowers or only carpellate flowers, not both |
front 45 What is Self pollination? | back 45 pollen from a plant is transferred to stigma on same plant |
front 46 What is Cross pollination? | back 46 pollen from one plant is transferred to stigma of another plant |